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Scott Aaronson is reportedly teaching alignment theory

An October 5 post says Aaronson is now teaching alignment theory but gives no further details.

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A post dated October 5 says Scott Aaronson is now teaching alignment theory. It gives no further details about what he is teaching.

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@AndrewCurran_Scott Aaronson is now teaching Alignment Theory.20d

@aran_nayebiRT @AndrewCurran_: Scott Aaronson is now teaching Alignment Theory.19d

@avt_imRT @AndrewCurran_: Scott Aaronson is now teaching Alignment Theory.19d

@DKokotajloRT @DaveRBanerjee: Hilarious line from Scott Aaronson's new course on AI Alignment Theory18d

@teortaxesTex2026. Scott Aaronson is teaching a course on Yudkowsky Thought (formally, AI Alignment Theory) in UT Austin. *AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities* is the first assigned reading. Yud has made it. He's the Marx of our generation.17d

@voooooogelif you take the Yud/Marx comparison seriously, there's a funny number of possible parallels: revisionist prosaic alignment, the {welfare state / RSP & evals project} as a response to the {Marxist / Yuddite} critique, etc to push further, you could imagine an "AI safety welfare state" heavily perma-paced compromise future where Yud Thought was internalized by the powers just enough to avert RSI/runaway technological improvement. you have a more-or-less functioning society of humans supported by AIs, with hillclimbed forensic interpretability but still no general science of minds such that an AI's intentions can be "provably known" a priori. you'd then perhaps get a sort of Western Yuddite running fear that the society will collapse for {the inherent contradictions of capitalism -> the coming mesaoptimizer's instrumental goal conflict and sharp left turn}, but despite this as that world slowly improves models within the bounds of whatever global RSP they have, everything *seems* to keep thrumming along fine. people come up with various (somewhat ad-hoc and factional) "macroalignment" theories of why, but the Yuddites aren't particularly convinced by them. meanwhile AI 2040 on the fragility of a long treaty doesn't come to pass. instead, the mutual fear of the RSP treaties breaking down and triggering misaligned RSI limits hot wars much like nuclear MAD, and (even gimped) AI productivity gains prop up the welfare states and cushion demographic decline. the old system gets to limp through slow evolution instead of collapsing in revolution or fooming, so you even get averted Singularity hauntology. it'd really have everything. the end of history 2: it's even more over17d

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@AndrewCurran_Scott Aaronson is now teaching Alignment Theory.20d

@aran_nayebiRT @AndrewCurran_: Scott Aaronson is now teaching Alignment Theory.19d

@avt_imRT @AndrewCurran_: Scott Aaronson is now teaching Alignment Theory.19d

@DKokotajloRT @DaveRBanerjee: Hilarious line from Scott Aaronson's new course on AI Alignment Theory18d

@teortaxesTex2026. Scott Aaronson is teaching a course on Yudkowsky Thought (formally, AI Alignment Theory) in UT Austin. *AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities* is the first assigned reading. Yud has made it. He's the Marx of our generation.17d

@voooooogelif you take the Yud/Marx comparison seriously, there's a funny number of possible parallels: revisionist prosaic alignment, the {welfare state / RSP & evals project} as a response to the {Marxist / Yuddite} critique, etc to push further, you could imagine an "AI safety welfare state" heavily perma-paced compromise future where Yud Thought was internalized by the powers just enough to avert RSI/runaway technological improvement. you have a more-or-less functioning society of humans supported by AIs, with hillclimbed forensic interpretability but still no general science of minds such that an AI's intentions can be "provably known" a priori. you'd then perhaps get a sort of Western Yuddite running fear that the society will collapse for {the inherent contradictions of capitalism -> the coming mesaoptimizer's instrumental goal conflict and sharp left turn}, but despite this as that world slowly improves models within the bounds of whatever global RSP they have, everything *seems* to keep thrumming along fine. people come up with various (somewhat ad-hoc and factional) "macroalignment" theories of why, but the Yuddites aren't particularly convinced by them. meanwhile AI 2040 on the fragility of a long treaty doesn't come to pass. instead, the mutual fear of the RSP treaties breaking down and triggering misaligned RSI limits hot wars much like nuclear MAD, and (even gimped) AI productivity gains prop up the welfare states and cushion demographic decline. the old system gets to limp through slow evolution instead of collapsing in revolution or fooming, so you even get averted Singularity hauntology. it'd really have everything. the end of history 2: it's even more over17d